The corpus record — Latin

pelagus

pelagus · n

the sea

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Where it lives

Cupido cruciatur 1 · 13.57/10k
Technopaegnion 2 · 13.47/10k
Achilleis 9 · 12.49/10k
Pharsalia 60 · 11.78/10k
Agamemnon 6 · 10.79/10k
Ordo Urbium Nobilium 1 · 9.56/10k
Octavia 5 · 9.56/10k
Troades 5 · 7.34/10k
In Eutropium 5 · 6.96/10k
Aeneid 41 · 6.47/10k
Mosella 2 · 6.15/10k
Punica 46 · 6.03/10k

Densest 12 of 74 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. pĕlăgus — Lewis & Short

pĕlăgus, i (Gr. n., = pe/lagos,

plur. pelagē, Lucr. 5, 35; 6, 619),

I the sea (poet. and in post-Aug. prose for Lat. mare): fervit aestu pelagus, Pac. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 39, 157: pelagus remis petere coeperunt, Auct. B. Hisp. 40: in pelago, Lucr. 4, 432: pelagus tenuere rates, the open sea, the main. Verg. A. 5, 8: pelago Danaūm insidias Praecipitare, id. ib. 2, 36: pelago dare vela patenti, id. G. 2, 41; 1, 142: qui fragilem truci Commisit pelago ratem, Hor. C. 1, 3, 11: pelago terrāque pericula passus, Ov. Tr. 3, 2, 7: lustrare pelagus, Val. Fl. 3, 608; Plin. 9, 10, 12, § 35; Juv. 1, 135; 12, 17: saeviente pelago, Tac. A. 15, 46: vortices pelagi, Just. 4, 1, 13: nantes lubrico pelagi, Val. Max. 3, 2, 10: pelagus Ciliciae, Vulg. Act. 27, 5.— Poet., a mass of water, like the sea: pelago premit arva sonanti, Verg. A. 1, 246.—

II Fig., for an immense mass or extent: quam pauca excepta verba ex pelago sermonis pulli minus trita afferant, the ocean of vulgar language, Varr. L. L. 9, 26, § 33: Herodiani scriptorum pelagus, Prisc. Ep. ad Jul. 4; cf. a sea of troubles, Shaksp.

2. pelagus — Walde–Hofmann

pelagus, # n. ,Meer* (seit Lucil. Pacuv. Acc.), Pl. -2 Lucr. = ne\dyn wie mé Lucr., ct Verg.]; pelagía f. , Art Meermuscheln* [Plin.], «sm n. ,Purpurfarbe* Bin), iss seit Varro, pelagicus seit Colum., pelaica d. i. -gíca „ein Fisch* (Pol, Silv., rom. „Scholle“, Thomas Rom. 35,186, Meyer-Lübke 7, n. 6370): entl. aus gr. réAaqoc (Pl. meldyn), pelagiss aus seXapiós (-agicus aus neAayıxdc). llagra s. . pell&x s. Zaciö I … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. pelagus, p. 1181]

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. pelagus (scan p. 517; entry #8462).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. pelagus (scan p. 1181; entry #1976).

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